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"Dance with a Stranger" (1985)

Dance with a Stranger (1985) is the true story of the last woman hanged in Great Britain. Ruth Ellis was a divorced mother of two trying to raise her young son and make a living working as a hostess/singer/escort in a London club. Her life changed when she met David Blakeley, young, aristocratic, good looking race car driver and mean drunk. It was lust at first site. Ruth was not amused t find that David had a fiancée. One of David's drunken outbursts cost her her job.

Ruth was played by Miranda Richardson (The Big Brass Ring, Damage, etc.), who shows her breasts in very good light while making love to David. Critics love this film, with Maltin awarding 3 1/2 stars and Ebert 4. Both praise the atmosphere of the film, and comment on the fact that it is based on a true story. I don't believe that veracity has anything to do with good story-telling. As Mark Twain said, "Never let the truth interfere with a good story." I agree that the film had atmosphere -- it fairly oozed with it -- and the acting was first rate. My problem with it was pace and plot. At the end of the film, Ruth shoots David. What could have been an actual action-rich dramatic highlight, followed by a tense courtroom scene, and the hanging, was an abrupt ending. Also, I always have trouble with films that have no likable characters. If you like character driven period pieces, you will probably like this one. If you prefer suspense, story, humor, action, etc, it may bore you as much as it did me. It may be worth it for the clear exposure from a young Miranda Richardson.

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    "Black Mama White Mama" (1972)

    Black Mama, White Mama (1972) was reviewed by Scoopy, who did his usual fine job. This film has a very high breast count, it has a women in prison shower scene, anonymous hookers, revolutionaries, naked black stars (Pam Grier), naked white stars (Margaret Markov), chase scenes, tropical settings, nuns, and more. I am sure this is exploitation, but what are they exploiting? Everything they could find to stuff into the film. I think they found as many cheap/free elements as they could, then wrote the script to include all of the pieces. Grier's acting was not yet developed, but her breasts certainly were.

    Maltin thinks it is a bad film at 2 stars, and I agree. However, it is a great bad film, due to the breast count, some of the scenics, and the corniness of the plot. Must see for Grier fans.

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  • Pam Grier (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Alona Alegre (1, 2)
  • Grier and Markov (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Margaret Markov (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Wendy Green (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Unknown (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
  • Johnny Web (Uncle Scoopy)
    Can you believe it, this is the first time I've ever seen Wild Side, the 1995 film with a famous love scene between Joan Chen and Anne Heche. One irony is that Anne was 100% hetero at the time, if my memory is OK. But I guess this helped open her ... um ... eyes. Or something that rhymes with "eyes". Future French citizen (or has he already left?) Alec Baldwin once joked that Heche was completely straight until her love scene with him in The Juror in 1996. Baldwin says they made out for a few minutes, Heche went to the bathroom, threw up for a while, and came out a lesbian.

    If you live in an area that orders from amazon.co.uk, you may be interested to know that there is a brand-new director's cut of this now available on Region 2 DVD and PAL format, with 20 additional minutes restored. Hugo? One of you imagers in Region 2 land? Please look at my review for lots of further info and links leading to the home page of the director's cut. Too long to explain here, but the director committed suicide shortly after he lost control of this. The 90 minute version was released, and he shot himself within months. His editor restored the film from his notes and the raw footage. Interesting story. I don't know if there is more nudity, but there should be a much better film.


    NEW RELEASES. Three really bad ones this week (links lead to my comments) Bless the Child, Shark Attack 2, and Get Carter. The other two aren't that good, but seem like citizen Kane in comparison. Woman on Top, a lame romantic comedy from the magical realism school. Romantico - si. Comico - no. The final one is The Prophet's Game, a pretty good Grade B Noir with Dennis Hooper and Stephanie Zimbalist. If you like my funny reviews best, the only really funny one is Bless the Child.

    Woman on Top is your best bet in a week batch this week. Is possibly the best movie, stars the prettiest girl, and even has the most nudity (albeit not very much).

    The Prophet's Game is probably the second best film of the week, and also has the second-most nudity.

     


    The Encyclopedia, Volume D, Number 1 is ready.

    Brainscan
    How can you go wrong with a movie entitled, "Cheerleader's Wild Weekend"? Well, you can have trouble deciding if it is to be a kidnap drama, a kidnap comedy or a revenge action flic. And you run about forty-five minutes of movie followed by five or six minutes of nekkidness and then end it with another forty-five minutes of movie. So what's a poor boy to do? Cap the damn five or six minutes and leave the rest to the buzzards. So here we go.

    First off, a view of the six cheerleaders who get topless and all and then dance around a bit. Acres of flesh, guys. Tons of nudity. Liters of hooters.

    And then the star of our show, Lenka Novak. (1, 2, 3) Showed up in Kentucky Fried Movie and Coach and a few other things. Sometimes listed as Hana Byrbo. Best looking of the bunch (which, as it turns out, ain't sayin' that much). Nice rack, as they say in the less refined parts of town.

    Elizabeth Halsey did this gem eight years after doing Cinderella, then poof she was gone. Tall, brunette with what would be a great body out there in the real world but was probably considered substandard in Hollywood.

    Janet Blythe is one of two one-time wonders in this movie. A real cutie, but no place for her in tinsel town beyond this masterpiece. The other one-timer is in the last Lenka Novak link. Her name is Courtney Sands. Plays a nurse kidnapper (that is to say, a self-professed nurse who is part of a band of kidnappers; they make off with a bus full of cheerleaders. And that starts the wild weekend). If you guys like reluctant lesbian encounters, however tame they might be, check out that collage. Courtney gives Lenka a bath, and either Lenka is a great actress or she was not enjoying the contact one little bit. In this scene one of the male kidnappers is off-screen, peeping in on the bath and yanking his doodle. Guess that was the comedy part.

    Janie Squire did the two-movies-and-out shuffle (this'n and Piranha). Moves her fanny well in the dance scene.

    Marilyn Joi is by far the most successful of the actresses turned cheerleaders for a weekend. Lots of movies. Big hooters. Hmmm, wonder if that is correlation or causation.

    Last leader of the cheers is Wally Anne Wharton. Had a bit part in a Cheech and Chong movie before performing here. In fact this movie was the last thing five of the seven nekkid women did. Gotta be some sort of record.

    So I loved this movie. You get six young women topless, with passable to excellent hooters, dance em around for a few minutes, add a bath scene with a seventh babe and, Junior, I will watch that puppy from end to end with a hope and a wish there will be more. Three bucks spent very, very well.

    AP
    Vidcaps from Germany's Big Brother 3.
    Some additional notes by AP:
  • Four of the six girls in BB3 Germany use their lady bics down under.
  • One pic from BB done by Scanman a few days ago was named Karina but it was actually Silvia.

  • Katja
    (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

    The first 3 links of Katja feature full frontal nudity. The second are topless only.

    Silvia
    (1, 2, 3, 4)

    #1 and #2 are some bio pics with nice topless exposure. #3 is a full frontal in the shower, and #4 is topless only.

    Tajana
    (1, 2)

    Topless in #1, full frontal in the shower in #2.

    Anja Continuing with the overall theme...full frontal nudity in the shower.

    Karina Topless only, and surprisingly NOT in the shower.

    Nicole Closing out the set and keeping the theme alive with more all access, aquatic nudity.

    and ...
    Arlene Cockburn
    (1, 2, 3)

    Breast exposure from the UK movie "The Winter Guest". #1 only shows a partial side view, but #2 and 3 take care of the rest. Vidcaps by Aesthete.

    Alessandra Antonelli
    (1, 2)

    Vidcaps from "Fermo posta Tinto Brass", by Pappa. Once again, the famous master of Italian erotica puts the gyno cam to use. What do we see when hit play on the VCR? Well, I guess you could say that we discover that Alessandra is the complete opposite of those German Big Brother babes!

    Laetitia Casta

    Elle Macpherson
    (1, 2)

    I've never seen images by this artist before, but I really like it. Wheeler is the name, and gorgeous desktop wallpaper is the game. Excellent artistry, and of course some nudity,

    Gisele Bundchen DAI's collage of Gisele's form fittin' top from Leno.

    Gwen Stefani From one of the checkout rags. Nice pose of Gwen revealing about as much skin as she can. She's not exactly fillin' up that bikini top, but she sure has one of the most beautiful faces in celebrity land. Thanks to PicCap

    Jessica Simpson The other Britney. Here we see her boobs about to burst out her skin tight outfit. Gotta sell records somehow!

    A few thoughts:
    When a hot babe takes her clothes off for a magazine, to work as a stripper, or for a movie she's essentially selling sex, right? Ok, so here's a question for everybody....why is that considered adult themed, or pornographic when tarts like Britney, Christina, and Jessica here are basically doing the same thing?

    Sure, the current crop of teen pop queens have yet to bare flesh, but you can't tell me that they are not selling sex! Come on! Seriously, the "image" that they promote is that of a hot, innocent yet naughty, barely legal, barely dressed, girl next door. Often seen thrusting, gyrating, and feeling themselves. Ya know, without breaking a sweat I could point you to 10,000 websites, magazines, 1-900 numbers, and movies that advertise exactly that!

    Whether or not the woman is wearing a traditional porn outfit of high heels only, or a pair of skin tight leather pants and a ultra small tank top with a microphone attached to her head is no different then separating hardcore anal porn from hardcore bondage porn! They are all simply sub-categories of the selling sex genre. A genre with a selection of flavors so vast that the dudes at Baskin and Robbins say "damn, that's a lot of flavors".

    Think about it for a moment. Some folks dig the catholic school thing, others are into chicks that wear parkas, some love thongs, some dudes even go for those Springer sized fat chicks,...it's all the same. It's all listed in the classifieds of life as "For Sale...SEX. Make offer"

    To me there is only real difference that separates these examples...pornos have much better music than anything those pop queens record.

    Carla Bruni All nude, but all of the goodies are carefully hidden...proving my point! This scan shows only slightly more skin than many of Britney's outfits (and no more than most bathing suits you would see at any beach on the planet), however this is considered for adults only. Why? Because she doesn't have a microphone?

    But I digress. Thanks to Pentheus for the scan.

    One more from Pentheus. An all nude pose with nice breast exposure and some mild bodypainting.

    The Funnies by Number 6
    A Republican rim shot special

    Settling the Election

    Once upon a time, long, long ago there was a Presidential Election that was too close to call. Neither the Republican Presidential Candidate, nor the Democratic Presidential Candidate had enough votes to win the election.

    Therefore, it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest between the two candidates to determine the final winner.

    There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc. but a week-long ice fishing competition seemed the fairest way to settle things.

    The candidate that catches the most fish at the end of the week wins.

    After a lot of back and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest would take place on a remote and cold lake in Wisconsin. There were to be no observers present since both men were to be sent out on this remote lake and return daily with their catch for counting and verification.

    At the end of the first day, George W. Bush returns to the starting line and he has 10 fish. Soon, Al Gore returns and has zero fish. Well, everyone assumes Al is just having another bad hair day or something and hopefully, he well catch up the next day.

    At the end of the second day George W. comes in with 20 fish and Al Gore comes in again with none. That evening Bill Clinton meets secretly with Al Gore and says: "Al, I think George W. is a low life, cheatin', son-of-a-gun. I'm gonna dress this good old southern boy, James Carville, as a jackass (wouldn't be too hard to do) and send him out to the lake to act as a spy".

    The next night (after George W. comes back with 50 fish and Al Gore with none), Bill gets Carville and Gore together and says to Carville; "Well, what about it boy, is George W. cheatin'?"

    "He sure is, Bill, he's cuttin' holes in the ice!"


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